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Blunkett admits ID card error

Fair enough …it takes a brave man to admit his mistakes, and all that. David Blunkett – the former Labour Home Secretary who actually introduced the idea of identity cards – now realises that the idea was big-brother-gone-mad and that compulsory ID cards for everyone is not the way to go. Just give them to

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Desperate Cameron plays the 'lower, lower!' game…

He never gives up, does he? Tory ‘call me Dave’ Cameron – descended from King William IV – really thinks that the way to curry favour with the British public is to play the ‘lower, lower!’ game on bank bonuses.  Dave is trying to underbid the government on the banks’ bonus payout shambles, which just

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Vincent Cable: Chancellor-in-waiting in a Coalition Government

Yet again, our outdated system of party politics leaves us, as citizens, frustrated and angry. Why? Because it prevents so many good people from leading us at times when sensible and capable leaders are nowhere to be seen within the Government we have in power. At a time when our economy and finances are at

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Goodwin 'grilled' on pension? We don't think so…

See the sleazy Scottish banker justify his obscene payoff…  if this is a ‘grilling’, we’re Scottish Nationalists. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7914321.stm